Focused Crawling for Educational Materials from the Web

Abstract

An enormous amount of learning material is needed for the e-learning content management system to be effective. This has led to the difficulty of locating suitable learning materials for a particular learning topic, creating the need for automatic exploration of good content within the learning context. In this paper, we aim to tackle this need by proposing a novel approach to find out good materials from www for eLearning content management system. This work presents domain ontology concepts based query method for searching documents from web and proposes concept and term based ranking system for obtaining the ranked seed documents which is then used by a concept-focused crawling system. The set of crawled documents so obtained would be obtained an appropriate set of content material for building an e-learning content management system.